when investigators say they know who committed monday's deadly suicide attack on moscow's domodedovo airport. investigators are saying the suspect was a twenty two year old man robot of russia's north caucasus republics but they will not disclose his name all the details in just a few moments. exposing the uprising as protests rolls through egypt leaks diplomatic cables reveal washington's backing for evolved leaders and how it's been a plotting to overthrow the country's president of for years. good business is bad journalism good journalism is bad business with claims that a corporate agenda is hogging the news coverage many americans are seeking

alternative sources where big business is not pulling the strings. you're watching r t it's midnight here in the russian capital welcome to the program investigators say the suicide bomber who carried out a deadly attack at moscow's domodedovo airport was a twenty year old man from russia's rest of caucasus region well monday's terror act claimed thirty five lives and left more than one hundred people injured. brings us the latest. the russian's best a gateway of could me to says that the case into monday's terrorist attack at the country's largest airport has been solved and they say they know the name of the man who carried out this u.s. side bombing is neither telling them russian investigators and security services have identified the suicide bomber who detonated an explosive device stuffed with

metal element at moscow's domodedovo airport on monday it was a twenty year old man from russia's north caucasus although investigators know the terrorists name we're not going to disclose it now as we're currently working to establish the organizers and accomplices of this crime the north caucasus terrorist groups and separate extremists have claimed responsibility for similar deadly attacks in russia over the years and march twenty ton residents of the russian republic of biggest i must remind of done two female suicide bombers of the same origin carried out an attack a two an attack on moscow's much rose system the attack claimed the lives of dozens of people as far as moscow's attack at the airport is concerned investigators say that it was most likely aimed at foreigners surviving in russia and it was not by chance that the explosive was set off in the international arrivals area will be a little why did the airport bore me as opposed to rebuild

a gaping holes in security at airports and train a mattress stations in russia that it forced the government all be country to confront improving safety in crowded places had on and the country's president signed several orders to step up safety on the country's busiest transportation systems though of course as you said no president and no country is one hundred percent protected against this international evil international terrorism faces not solely russia but the whole world what russia could do is look to other countries' governments for tips on tackling the problem consider the situation. so only boy consolidating all public forces can we vanquish this evil we have no right to get hysterical about terrorism and spread out with this will make terrorism stronger if you look at the way americans came together after the events of nine eleven even those who are not very fond of president bush said yes he's got to be at the helm

he's got to be tough it's got to be the same for our country that's the only way we can defeat terrorism but at that moment with the russian lawmakers and also debating a new three level security alert system to be installed on russia's public transport this is a system similar to the one in place in the united states of america and this is still world classify any potential risk as an increased high or critical and this would enable introduce a rush it would enable law enforcement agents and security officials to work together in case of a terror threat terror attack similar to the one which happened at the idea that our airport on monday. diplomatic cables released by wiki leaks reveal that the u.s. government had been plotting to topple the egyptian president for the past three years the fall show washington had been secretly backing leading figures behind the uprising in egypt well this comes as dozens have been killed in the violent anti-government protests since tuesday artie's polis leader has the latest from the

egyptian capital cairo. so far more than one hundred people have been killed as mobile clinics throughout the city continue to operate there treating wounded many of whom are reporting that they were looted by police after being arrested and one of the most worrying developments was that of looting the cairo museum was looted with monies there being ransacked we're also hearing reports from a number of neighborhoods where people say that their homes were broken into and goods are stolen now the egyptian president hosni mubarak has tried to address protesters demands by appointing for the first time in thirty years the country's first vice president now that is almost a woman who used to head the intelligence here at the same time the new prime minister mr ahmed shafik he's a technocrat he's from the aviation industry he's been tasked with forming a new government but speaking to protesters and these moves on not going to do a lot of pacify them they say they want nothing short of the president himself

stepping down the relationship between the united states and egypt has always been a complicated contradictory one the wiki leaks documents refer to cables as far back as two thousand and seven and in those cables there is discussion where the american administration puts its weight behind opposition figures here in egypt while at the same time supporting the presidency of hosni mubarak now that is a clear example of double standards there's also been a clear debris could balancing act that the american administration has been playing now some of these cables refer to almost solomon who has just been appointed the country's new vice president they say that he makes to quote the leaks and attractive alternative to robotic but analysts here say that mubarak would only have appointed so many if he trusted him if he was to quote them rock solid the other point that analysts themselves have been discussing is the question of just how spontaneously is demonstrations in fact work.

behind the recent events in africa can you stupid lies you. situation this sufferings of millions of people or any potential war that would meet living in those countries and possible we all know that's a major transport oil pipeline is running through egypt the u.s. only benefits from high oil prices as all global garson dollar trade is carried out in dollars us dollars demand is only growing i don't believe in spontaneous revolutions when hundreds of thousands millions of people come out onto the streets at the same time taking into account there's been no serious or immediate change to their standards of living for these demonstrations the needs coordination supports leaders getting money from foreign secret services now there's no denying that the demonstrations we've seen this week here in the egyptian capital have been part inspired by what happened in earlier this month there seems to be a message of hopefulness in the arab world that if you really put your heads

together and your actions together there is the possibility of overthrow dictators who have been rumors floating around the last few hours and difficult to independently verify them but they suggest that barak's son gamal who has been gearing up to take over the presidency after him has infected traveled to england with his mother mubarak's wife suzanne but as i say we have no way of verifying that at least not now there is still this acrid smell of tear gas in the air they store the occasional series of gunfire and bullets being fired but aside from that waiting in the city has come to a standstill cairo tonight saturday is in a standstill as thousands of demonstrators take to the streets and their protests and their demands continue. that was paula slayer reporting from cairo. now with trust in the media on the wane in the united states some are searching for more diverse sources to get their news and many are skeptical over whether the big corporations owning the major t.v.

networks can present them with unbiased output artists and associate sure going to delve deeper into the means and message of the main broadcasters. everyone seems to know that he who pays the piper gets to call the tune. in the us paying the piper and running the show are corporations that you may call what american see hear and read it's a money maker it's a cash cow people don't think that there's any money in the media i mean aside from health care these days there's probably the media is is the industry of the twenty first century half a century ago fifty corporations rammed a major networks and newspapers since then a rapid concentration of media ownership has resulted in near media monopoly spearheaded by a lucky few pumping money from the news cash cow and piping corporate interests to the viewers and readers. the danger of this kind of media concentration is that it

robs democracy of diversity it robs viewers from being exposed to a wider range of views. analysts say the us is living in the golden age of media bias. it's never been easier for them to find out exactly who's behind what where the conflicts of interest are topping the list of owners of rupert murdoch and his empire the news corp you have a new global media enterprise and if you shake that agenda at all your interests i mean we tried. murdoch stands over fox news channel the wall street journal and the new york post the fox channel is definitely seen as the most partisan and the most focused on advancing a particular political party and a political interest so is this because of rupert murdoch's personal interests definitely there's no doubt about it. general electric one of the largest military contractors for the u.s.

government plus comcast one of america's largest cable providers are joined by the hip running the n.b.c. network the floor of the hudson river is covered with carcinogenic p c b s these toxic genic dangerous chemicals that were put there by general electric general electric owns n.b.c. and b c has not taken any trouble to report on this massive environmental story with the innocent face of mickey mouse as their trademark disney is the proud owner of a.b.c. when a.b.c. was bought by does the and there were some a.b.c. stories about improprieties that disneyland is the world disney killed those c.n.n. and time magazine belong to time warner joining the media giants are c.b.s. corporation towering over c.b.s. news and viacom a global entertainment content company running among others comedy central they're supposed to afflict the comfortable and comfort the afflicted. but when you have journalists treading lightly around corporate and governmental elites it almost

defeats the reason for their even existing the purpose of existence for corporations is profit meaning investors interests are police to head of anything else that would matter in journalism good business is bad journalism good journalism is bad business broadcaster laura flanders says counting on getting facts from the corporate media is simply naive because be reliant on military contractors gee to bring us our news about the war any more than we can be reliant upon television networks that are run by disney to bring us the truth about what's happening in our economy the media are increasingly monopolize the number of voices interested in bringing their viewers a little something called truth has decreased as a result instead of representing journalism the media have become louder mouthpieces for corporations and if that's the truth in our hearts the new york. well don't forget you can get the latest on all our stories on our website that's r

t dot com and let's take a look at what's online right now the deal on the new arms reduction treaty between russia and the u.s. has finally been sealed get all the analysis and reaction to what it means for global security and. the world famous ball short feeder takes london by storm its debts its way to three top awards from british critics get the full story and watch more at r.t.e. dot com. and i will quick look at other news making headlines around the world the deputy governor of gamma stands kandahar province has been killed in an attack while he was on his way to work a suicide bomber on a motorcycle round into the official's car with the taliban claiming responsibility the blast killed abdul latif on the spot while three of his bodyguards were wounded on friday at least nine people were killed in. bomb blast in the capital kabul.

five people have been killed by a blast in a busy tunnel in northwest pakistan nineteen others were injured most of them were taken to a nearby hospital in the shower of the region has seen numerous bombings over the past few years and it's believed the taliban or al qaida militants are behind the attack. the african union is commissioning a panel that it says will resolve the ivory coast's leadership dispute within a month incumbent leader of the glow is refusing to step down though his opponent. is internationally recognized as the winner of the first presidential election the union called for an end to the government back to seach confining tara to a hotel it also strongly condemn the surge in violence that has gripped the country following the stalemate. now raging corruption the difficulties of investing in russia and the fate of. president medvedev shares his view on these issues and many

others in an interview with bloomberg television well that's next here on r.t. . president here to thank you very much for joining us you want to turn russia into a modern country you've got mcdonalds you've got shopping malls you've got sushi

what's missing. what's missing in common things like infrastructure business infrastructure and legislation to properly regulate business activity is missing the official establishment of the bureaucracy lack of a proper legal consciousness in the world do it well it's judicial system is missing once we have a landscape that we can provided there is no corruption it would mean that russia is ready to steam ahead along in its modernization track but we do know that it is a nearly all of the companies that are traded in russia are either controlled by the state or controlled by billionaires or also known as all other minority investors foreign investors often find that in these circumstances they are not treated fairly for example russian law requires that anyone who buys more than a thirty percent stake in a company makes an offer to the rest of the shareholders. however what happens in

practice is one guy comes and buys twenty percent and a friend of his who is seemingly about with him buys twenty percent and they're able to officially not be buying as one unit thirty percent are taking control of the company it's something that's blatant all investors talk about it and yet the regulator does nothing you think the regulator should do more about. the commodities that you can get around any law including north american or british the question is whether there is an effective control over the way the relevant legal regulations are applied to business business is always looking to avoid the toughest norms unfortunately as regards compliance with legislation in our country look at the situation here is as follows when our businessmen often trying to strike a bargain with public officials civil servants and among themselves in order to get around the legislation which is not under developed to my opinion in trying to

close deals or contrary to law. but that is not only a question of the legislation itself it's a question of legal kosher question overthinks of compliance control and the question of effective working anti monopoly agencies just look at the way things stand in the united states where noncompliance with anti trust legislation is often a violation much more serious than a minor criminal offense because the consequences of not be disastrous for any businessman so we have a lot to deal with here a lot to work on. we talked a lot about corruption and the need to clean up corruption you've taken some steps but you yourself admit really you haven't accomplished a lot why. go after if corruption is total as you say it is in russia why doubt go out are some really seen your government officials. this acquittal so i would like to say here that we do need to speak

legal language someone knows that somebody is a bribe taker well we can think that way about any governor not just in the russian federation that you don't but i think if you've got a point let me just stop you there those are so you have said that corruption is nearly total it's not just singular cases where the people are corrupt so theoretically it shouldn't be very difficult to find people who were where the evidence is there so why not do that. if the price of the shema i believe we should act as follows corruption has indeed penetrated all branches of power but you and it has spread far and wide after the emergence of a market economy in the new political system which is only natural to be honest there were no such corruption levels in the soviet union why because there was no freedom and no market economy unfortunately our state officials in our businessmen were not ready to communicate in a civilized way from the start and corruption grew out of the well let me tell you

the situation is difficult but not hopeless so i'll give you just one figure so you know you and everybody watching the program know last year alone several thousand high ranking state officials were prosecuted for corruption and bribery in two thousand of them was sentenced when we have of course he was arrested the first time. it's a signal to all of the oligarchs that the state was in control and one thing that happened was everybody started paying taxes. so wouldn't wouldn't you have the same effect if you went after one of your own i'm talking about somebody in a cab at the cabinet level in the government who really senior wouldn't that send the same signal to everyone else that this is no longer tolerated and should. block and will go as regards payments of taxes not just by court of course ski business men in general when the show yesterday i had

a look at statistics or for last year alone one thousand private entrepreneurs and some three thousand employees of major companies were prosecuted but tax dodging this is a big number i didn't expect it to be that high for months and i had to look at certain cases nation was provided to me by the prosecutor general's office some of those people were not talking about the well known case when you got paid to ten fifteen year sentences so i would say it's not exactly correct to talk about the selective use of justice. let me let me talk to you about that of course you know a little bit more depth. every december russia's biggest investment bankers brokers get together for an informal chat this year at that chat one of the investment bankers raised his glass to me hail hundred of course not because anyone in that room liked me hail critical ski i was told but because they all believe that what happened to him the second conviction. is devastating for russia's investment

climate i don't want the story of mikhail khodorkovsky to just go away don't you want to stop it. let me expand on this for it is indeed of certain interest to everyone first of all let me say once again that last year alone several thousand private entrepreneurs and employees of major business entities were sent to prison for tax crimes secondly i have always believed that the president of any country including russia should not talk about individual cases just because that would be an interference with the judiciary system thirdly as regards mr khodorkovsky and some of his colleagues prosecuted by law and the respective sentence it has not entered into legal force it but i hope it is needless to say that basically the prosecution can come up with new arguments and bring new charges against people who already serving their sentence however you take fourthly i believe the old talk about the shortcomings of our judicial system

as well as any attempts to bring pressure including on me as a president totally destructive in this context because they make everyone else think that the judicial or legal system in russia is so imperfect he simply tell the president or someone else change the sentence for her to cough ski or someone else and then will believe that your legal system is not that hopeless that it is kind of working but that would be unacceptable how can investors be sure there won't be another cost. if i think the any investor be a russian or an american investor he should have barred by laws otherwise he could get a term the way happened with khodorkovsky and as was the case with bernie madoff we got a longer sentence which you talk about the need for more political competition to modernize the russian economy. how can you fight corruption in the government if there is no real opposition if the opposition political opposition in

russia isn't allowed to exist. but if. that's not right the political opposition in russia does exist watched the question is how strong it is there are four political parties represented in the russian parliament which sometimes really do when the government has been formed by the leading political force. they criticize the government clamor against it and so on just the way it happens in the rest of the world another thing is that we currently have just one powerful political force which controls the situation in the parliament there are negative sides to that germany's but it's obvious that there are positive sides to what are they in the ninety's but president boris yeltsin could not dot any law because the communists or other parties would block it we have been able to adopt normal legislation but that doesn't mean that united russia or any other party she gets a mandate to rule once and for all. for that's exactly what i'm asking about i am

more interested in the opposition leaders that are outside of the parliament that's what that's what i'll ask you about why is it that an opposition leader are going to russia. can be arrested a peaceful demonstration. and just because he's at this demonstration no he was accused of provoking a policeman but a lot of people so that was not. at all again i wouldn't want to interfere with the proceedings but if you mean the administrative arrest of small opposition party's leaders then this issue should be addressed in a lawful manner no country in the world allows by lation of its laws and meetings rallies and demonstrations against the police by committing acts against those who maintain law and order your very popular president the opposition is very small you yourself talk about that why create these situations because there are just bad press for the investment climate outside of russia where these opposition leaders

are getting arrested were demonstrations whether they were officially sanctioned or not are dispersed why not just let them demonstrate any deal that they do that all the time out of dozens even hundreds of demonstrations or perhaps only one violates the law but it was just one problem with holding a demonstration on a specific day in a specific place. where once the city administration in moscow changed these demonstrations were sanctioned they gather there but it's impossible to file it doesn't applications for the same location by the way opposition leaders got the sanction as far as i know the problem is that they can't work with each other somebody said we'll be there someone else added we won't be there will take you to another location but i don't look we need to observe the law on his account are you going to run for president two thousand and twelve. asked see how things will go with you if you do run with prime minister putin continue to be your prime minister

at the boys as he starts elevator but each it will depend on a whole number of things and circumstances as regards me i won't speak about mr putin right now ok he's another person my friend my colleague so i won't speak on his behalf but it has for me i will certainly make my own decision and i'll do that this year but i mean a decision what to do next if i think it will be right for the country but our political system and first and foremost through our citizens for me to participate in elections i'll do that if i think the other way i will state my position openly and i will say that this is for the good of our society and our state but if i decide to participate then i will of course make a subsequent decision regarding prime minister this is obviously what this has been wishing eponym yemenis in my final question obviously the terrorist act in moscow was a tragedy. that aside. do investors need to worry about

the security situation in russia you've got. the olympics coming up you've got the world cup coming up is russia's security situation something that needs to worry investors. so. well i would like to start with something else fish situation definitely concerns first and foremost russian citizens and me as a president and this is the most important thing because only by consolidating all public forces can we vanquish this evil we have no right to get hysterical about terrorism and spread out for this will make terrorism stronger look at the way americans came together after the events of nine eleven even those who are not very fond of president bush said yes he's got to be at the helm he's got to be tough he's got to be the same for our country that's the only way we can defeat terrorism as regards fears and concerns for our investors and all those who want to come to

russia rest assured that we will ensure a high level of security what we will ensure the proper level of security for the winter olympics and the world football cup and all other sporting events but it will be a task for the whole of society and for law enforcement agencies and special services of course and we will do that as effectively as possible but should we still limit . thank you very much as we appreciate. bringing you the latest in science and technology from around.